I just commented on this in another thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/76011

TL;DR: The server-to-client interactions on Lemmy are a lot heavier than the server-to-server interactions, so even if you're just using your own server to interact with communities on other servers, it should still take load off of the servers you would have been using directly.

If I'm reading this correctly, the headline is...very inaccurate.

It looks like a dispute between two developers in Organic Maps, who both started out at Maps.me, specifically over whether their CDN redirector should be public or private.

I was expecting this to be a half-baked plan to block something using a less-than-half-baked definition that would also cover security updates.

The fact that someone actually thinks explicitly blocking security updates is a good idea is just appalling.

So the $140/year subscription they're already collecting isn't enough for them?

I guess this is as good a reminder as any to look at what I'm actually using Prime for these days.

Reminder to self: buy physical copies of the shows I want to watch again.

I learned the term "glass cliff" when she was hired.

I've gone back to Blu-Ray for some things because I no longer trust streaming sites to keep them available.

It’s unclear what evidence Twitter has that former employees who now work at Meta continue to have access to Twitter intellectual property or trade secrets. Twitter responded to a request for comment with an automated email of a poop emoji.

Or for once the poop emoji is an accurate representation of the "evidence."

Stopped clock and all that.

Someone's concern for privacy can change throughout the day or at different locations. To keep the metaphor going, they might be fine with the top being open while they're driving, but want it closed when the car is parked.

It's not the static assets, it's the database queries

• Dropped Reddit and Twitter completely. Actually deleted my Reddit account and deleted most of my Twitter history.
• Stopped using Gmail as my primary email.
• Went back to DVD and Blu-Ray for shows and movies I think I might want to rewatch.
• Slowly importing stuff I've posted on various social media to my website.
• Slowly moving stuff off of Google Drive and Dropbox to my local PC and/or Nextcloud.
• Finally set up my Nextcloud server to use object storage so I can use it for auto-uploads without worrying about space.
• Tried out a bunch of different Fediverse platforms.
• Made more of an effort to report bugs instead of just living with them or using something else.
• Deleted Chrome as my secondary browser and installed Vivaldi. (I've been using Firefox as my primary for a while.)

Moving stuff is slow because I don't want to just copy it all over, I want to decide what to keep in the process.

I had to check....

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/v7.3.3

O_o

Edit:

Yeah, it was real! Back in 2017.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v733-fix-cia-hacking-npp-issue/

Checking the certificate of DLL makes it harder to hack. Note that once users’ PCs are compromised, the hackers can do anything on the PCs. This solution only prevents from Notepad++ loading a CIA homemade DLL. It doesn’t prevent your original notepad++.exe from being replaced by modified notepad++.exe while the CIA is controlling your PC.

I've been using the Firefox Translations extension that this is probably building on. Also runs entirely in the client.

Having this built into the browser is going to be a great selling point.

The rest of the page? Probably. I stopped reading after the comic.

When someone named Kafka says it's the "weirdest"...that says something!

^&@% Private equity again...

Political organizing is a great example of something that shouldn't be owned by this kind of firm.

(Followed by every other kind of organization. The concept of treating "business" as a set of interchangeable parts that move money in and out of opaque boxes and not actually focusing on what they do and why is massively broken IMO)

Aaaand I just read about the situation with Beehaw.org defederating from lemmy.world because their mods were overwhelmed, so that (for now) the two servers can't interact with each other.

So that's another way it matters.

Mostly it doesn't matter for the person using it*, so you can just pick one that isn't overloaded to start. But...

Ways it does matter:

• Your instance's moderation policy and actions. (including what content is allowed/disallowed, how they deal with harassment, etc.)
• Server reliability. This can change drastically if a lot of people join at once, as many Lemmy sites have discovered this week! (I believe Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world have both upgraded their hardware in the last few days to deal with this!)
• Admin reliability. This is harder to tell up front, but it's worth taking a quick look at whether the admins seem to be active and responsive, whether they seem like they're in it for the long haul or if they're experimenting, etc.

Switching is sort of easy in that all you have to do is create a new account somewhere, and you don't need to tell your followers because Lemmy doesn't have user subscriptions (though someone could follow you from, say, Mastodon)...

...but it's also not easy in that Lemmy doesn't have tools to export/import your subscriptions (yet?) so you have to add them to the new account manually. And moving your posting/comment history isn't something that's doable at the moment, either.

What I did when moving from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world was put the old/new accounts in each others' bios and add "Old Account" to the old one's display name. I'm not too attached to my post history sticking to my profile.

*I think it matters a bit more for where you set up a community, on the basis that an instance focused around, say, history would be a better place to create an archaeology community than one focused around FOSS. Though you might want to cross-post articles about free software used in archaeology!

One of the devs mentioned that the biggest draw on server resources is the direct web interaction, and loading pages, not the behind-the-scenes federation, where the database queries are simpler and the actions can be queued up and retried as needed. (I think apps would have the same issue since the server's going to be doing the same kind of massive database queries to build your feed.)

If your comment takes a few minutes to get from your home server to another one when the site's overloaded, it's not a huge deal, but if your comment takes a few minutes to get from your browser to your server, the site's basically down.

So moving yourself to a new server takes over the entire real-time load you would have been using, and the additional background load of sending threads to/from your server is a lot smaller.

Um, never?

I've lost chargers on several occasions, and I've switched from older ones to newer ones for faster charging, but the older ones still work as spares.

Cables, on the other hand....